Benefit of Duyan

2:52:00 AM

Babies love being rocked to sleep. Babies associate the rocking motion with the movements they felt whilst nestled in the safety and security of their mother's womb.

My topic is about cradle or duyan. Cradle help us bigtime especially when we're putting my baby boy to sleep. For the first month, my baby was used to swing by the crib's cradle. The thing is ang sway ng crib's cradle ay side to side and maliit lang space or layo ng pagsway. Unlike sa regular duyan, yung sinasabit mas malayo siya.

My parents discovered it when my baby was around 2 months old. There were so many nights that he's having a hard time to sleep. Sometimes he start to sleeps around 5 am-7am. That's very exhausting. It just came up on their mind this technique where they took a blanket and hold each corner to shaped it like a duyan. When they started swaying, my baby stopped crying and just a few minutes he started yawning and closing his eyes. They regularly did this for 5 days. After that we bought a duyan in Kalentong, Mandaluyong.

Ang problema ayaw niya sa duyan na nabili namen. Gusto niya yung kumot. We think the reason is when a baby puts into the blanket shaped like cradle, his own weight pulls the fabric in around him, creating a snug cocoon- or womb-like environment. So what we did, my father created an improvised duyan. Nilagyan ng tubo sa magkabilang gilid yung blanket para wide open siya then kinabitan ng lubid sa magkabilang gilid din at sinabit sa matibay na bakal na parte ng kisame sa bahay. It really works for us. We saved time, effort and energy to get him sleep.

Dati madalas lang siyang nakakapit, ngayon sobrang likot na niya. Halos magiba na yung duyan. Anyway, it's really up to you if you are going to use cradle for your baby. Some are using cradle and swing gear. It's quite expensive but if you can afford one, you can try using it. Have a great day mommies.

In India we have hammock kind of cradles, very similar to shown in your pictures. I can not imagine my life without that. My both kids used to sleep in it till age 2-3yrs. Its not recommended to make them sleep long time in hammock so I used to make them sleep in hammock and then take them on bed.